Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole car weighed only 1,185 Ibs. The project, of course, was painfully expensive. In all, Gurney and Shelby built four Formula I American Eagles in Santa Ana, at an average cost of $50,000. To help cover the costs, they signed contracts with two commercial sponsors-Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Mobil Oil Corp. This year Mobil pulled out, leaving A.A.R. short the $300,000 it needed to mount a full-scale effort on the Grand Prix circuit...
...control. Still far from its goal of keeping the growth of a highly fecund population (more than 500 million now) within the nation's food-producing capability, the Health and Family Planning Ministry has decided to enlist some of India's largest companies to distribute government-subsidized rubber condoms...
...everything from the Y.M.C.A. method (coldwater baths) to the pill," he says. But in his campaign to cut India's birth rate from 40 per 1,000 annually to 25 or even 20 per 1,000 in a decade, Chandrasekhar will also emphasize the rubber contraceptive...
Speaking for three alarmed dissenters, Justice Tom Clark denounced the compromise on grounds that it weakens probable-cause standards and "degrades" the Fourth Amendment. Calling the decision an "absurdity," Clark envisioned magistrates rubber-stamping thousands of "area" warrants, deluging inspectors in paperwork-and allowing unscrupulous slumlords to delay repairs. Clark accused the court of "striking down hundreds of city ordinances throughout the country and jeopardizing thereby the health, welfare and safety of literally millions of people...
...possibility of commodity shortages not only panicked European housewives, who in many places swept shelves bare of sugar and spices, but also sent excited shivers through the world's commodities markets. Futures prices went up sharply on tin, rubber, sugar, grains and potatoes...